Re: The problem with modern hardware... (Re: Programmers Text Editor)

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>]

On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:04 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:

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> On 11/06/07 04:53, Micha Feigin wrote:
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> > Personally I prefer emacs, but it takes longer to load and I am  
> > still looking
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> Modern machines are so fast that the younger generations of geeks
> don't know the real joy of vi-users bashing emacs because it takes
> SOOOO LOOOONG to load on a Sun3, and is a OS unto itself...

Well, yeah, but once you load it you're not supposed to ever exit. ;)